La Marr Jurelle Bruce

How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind

Madness and Black Radical Creativity

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Produktbeschreibung

La Marr Jurelle Bruce ponders the presence of "madness" in black literature, music, and performance since the early twentieth century, showing how artist ranging from Kendrick Lamar and Lauryn Hill to Nina Simone and Dave Chappelle activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition.

Produktdetails

• Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781478009832
• ISBN-10: 1478009837
• Artikelnr.: 58772225

Autorenporträt

La Marr Jurelle Bruce is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
1. Mad Is a Place  1
2. "He Blew His Brains Out through the Trumpet": Buddy Bolden and the
Impossible Sound of Madness  36
Interlude. "No Wiggles in the Dark of Her Soul": Black Madness, Metaphor,
and "Murder!"  71
3. The Blood-Stained Bed  79
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Mad Black Woman  110
5. "The People inside My Head, Too": Ms. Lauryn Hill Sings Truth to Power
in the Key of Madness  139
6. The Joker's Wild but That Nigga's Crazy: Dave Chappelle Laughs until It
Hurts  172
7. Songs in Madtime: Black Music, Madness, and Metaphysical Syncopation 
201
Afterword. The Nutty Professor (A Confession)  231
Notes  239
Bibliography  303
Index  333